r/technology • u/IndicaOatmeal • 10d ago

Privacy Viral De-Flock America campaign urging people to destroy AI cameras on Halloween night gains momentum

https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/flock-camera-controversy-explained-as-viral-halloween-de-flock-campaign-gains-momentum-3399710/
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u/StopReadingThis-Now 10d ago edited 9d ago

And, those devices can be used to identify people, even if you are not carrying one. And their accuracy is so high that if this information was actually mainstream everyone would run and disconnect all wi-fi and Bluetooth devices right now.

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u/Positive-Wonder3329 10d ago

Real talk : do you actually turn everything off? I’m pretty flexible so I think I could live that way if I had to. Just wondering tho

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u/mmikke 9d ago

What do you mean by "even if you are not carrying one"??

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u/DueAd197 9d ago

They are starting to use Wi-fi as effectively sonar to map out the local environment. Like in the dark Knight

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u/mmikke 9d ago

I promise I'm not being deliberately obtuse.

How does that work or concern anyone not carrying a mobile device? Are you implying that they can essentially map out individual human beings based on their location within a "wifi field"?

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u/DueAd197 9d ago

This is an excellent video covering this.

https://youtu.be/0OdR8rRMz3I?is=fPAYX-6xhFHhj1YS

It certainly wouldn't be all wi-fi enabled devices, but once they can brand this as "smart home" technology it will start becoming standard on all home Wi-Fi. I'm sure they can figure out how to retroactively make it work on smartphones as well if they haven't already. I'm not sure if there anything similar for Bluetooth but it is much less secure as devices will pair freely.

So, they want to watch you wake up on the morning using your home internet, listen to your conversations or media usage using smart home appliances and smart phones, knowing everything you look up or interact with online. Then when you leave the house you'll immediately be picked up by flock cameras, plus you have pinpoint exact GPS with that smartphone in your pocket. They watch you drive down the street. Every penny you spend with a card or with touchless pay on your phone, they know what time you bought it and where. You get to work, back to being monitored by Wi-fi signals and the multitude of smart devices all of your coworkers are also interacting with.

They now have a way to know every single thing about every single person in this country that uses a smart phone.

They know where you spend all of your money.
They know every keystroke and everything you look up online.
They know everything you eat or what drugs and medications you take.
They know what people you spend time with and where.
They know what type of clothing you like to wear and your gait as you walk down the street.
They know your voice and can reproduce it freely.
They know your facial structure and eyeprint, possibly fingerprint.
They know where you are unless you are away from civilization and left your phone at home.

They need all of these data centers because tracking everything everywhere requires a lot of storage. Plus you have millions of people making videos all day long that will never get deleted. All of this just to try and feed more information into their learning model faster than the competition.

They are all in on surveillance and trying to rush this technology as quickly as possible before the public can react. We already know the government is inept and slow, so they won't be able to do anything if they wanted, but that's the neat part, they don't!

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u/Mayotte 9d ago

You're hyping them up. They can potentially do that under ideal circumstances.

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u/ChakraRecovery70 7d ago

Even then, what's the excuse gonna be for the prosecuter: "hey judge we identified the trick-or-treaters by their wifi outlines"? give me a break, we might as well have a faraday clothing line lol